New pc or repair old one ?

BigDebtBoy

Hi guys

looking for a bit of advice

I am mainly using the machine for music production (not to advanced levels, just using stuff like reason 5 etc, tmaking dance music) only just started out really

was using my mesh I bought in 2005/2006 until the other day I started getting disk boot errors and the bios wouldn't see the hard drive, (also before that was getting a warning about fan speed too low or not working)
anyway tried another hard drive, sata cable, sata ports but still no joy (my hard drive was new prety much as well) not sure whats up with it yet could be sata power cable but to technical for me as it runs into the power box with about 20 other cables
I am just wondering if its worth repairing and how much its likely to cost with it being old or best getting a new one (very tight budget)

old pc specs

asus motherboard
a8n-sli nforce4 athlon/64 s939
Amd athlon 64x2-4200+ dual core processor
2gb ram
Creative labs snd/blaster audigy 2 zs w/1394
creative labs inspire 7.1 speakers


thoughts please ?

russell_e

Given that you can get a PC from Novatech for £299 (without Windows) & yours is 6+ years old, I wouldn't repair it. You can use the licence from the old PC.

http://www.novatech.co.uk/pc/home/

If you're not that techie to fault find, then repairing could get expensive!

bengalknights

You wont be able to updgrade as socket 939 isnt supported anymore

best to buy new

robmar0se

If the sata controller on the mobo has a fault, you could inexpensively try an external controller and connect yr hdd to that. AT £6 might be worth a shot? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-Port-SATA-Serial-IDE-ATA-RAID-Controller-PCI-Card-UK-/280414578300?pt=UK_Computing_ComputerComponents_InterfaceCards&hash=item414a02e67c


PS unlikely, but have you tried updating the BIOS?